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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 4/22/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football,
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  The insider I've covered Jeff leg Wall. His appearances are always must listen radio.
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  You learn a lot. He's leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five.
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  Unfairly dated. Yeah, like somebody who just constantly gets criticism and you're
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  like he's good though. Well, look, I would say all these young
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  guys that we early evaluate. Zach Wilson in New York. You know we've
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  got early evaluations on him. It happens all the time with ah, yeah,
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  Easter eggs getting dropped all over the place. Jeff Legwald. Time here
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  on a Monday afternoon. We are a mirror four days away from day number
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  one of the NFL Draft, three days. I don't know, do the
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  math, however it works out. It's Thursday. Uh, Jeff Legwald's top
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  one is out. The Broncos have new clothes, The Broncos have a new
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  quarterback, the Broncos have a new cornerback. It's been an eventful day around
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  these parts. Jeff Legwald with us right now in the ramos Law Hotline.
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  Car accident. You need ramos Law medical doctor and attorney visit ramos law dot
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  com. Leggy, how you doing, man? I'm good. Are you
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  guys doing good? Lad McConkie at twenty eight? What are you doing?
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  Leggy? That's what I got. What's the most belong what's the most random
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  anger that you have ever produced with the top one hundred of over or underrating
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  a player? Oh? Annually, it's the quarterbacks. In fact, yesterday
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  I just had somebody in the grocery store bust me about the quarterbacks. So
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  I always take heat for the quarterbacks because I put them where they belong,
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  where they're really graded, and people can't separate that from a mock draft type
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  of situation. And that's okay and all that people will go. I once
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  got like a ten thousand word email a bout a guy I had in the
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  nineties and Marvin Jones. Who the hell was it? Yeah? No,
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  I mean the person was wondering how I could possibly put them in the top
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  one hundred. And it was the longest Uh. I don't think I've ever
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  written a series of stories that long ever my career, but it was.
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  It was a pretty epic email. But that's a long time ago. But
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  when there weren't too many top one hundreds out there. So you went Bonix
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  at thirty nine, you went Pennix at fifty with the the sort of lower
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  tier quarterbacks there in this draft. The Bonicks question continues to be fascinating to
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  meet Jeff because you rank him at thirty nine. Will he be drafted above
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  or below that number? I think almost certainly above unless uh, you know,
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  there's always the quirky way. Sometimes the board falls weird and and you
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  know, you get the cluster of teams who don't need a quarterback and it
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  just falls funny. But I I think he will be drafted before that.
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  But I will tell you I've talked to gms who who you know, would
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  say that's the that's in the area where he should be drafted. So and
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  look, you know, you're essentially saying your guy is in the upper third
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  of the second round. So it's not like you're saying he can't play football
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  at all. It's just you know, you got to put him somewhere,
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  and there's only thirty two slots in the first round, so U but he
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  is he has the quirkiest mathematics of any prospect that quarterback I've seen in a
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  long time. In terms of yards downfield, the ball actually goes in the
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  air, and I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like his completion profile,
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  and that is something teams are wrestling with. I'll be honest with you.
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  Your colleague at ESPN, Jordan Reed, who I know you have a ton
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  of respect for, put out his seven round mock draft today. I'm sure
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  you saw it. It featured the Broncos trading down with Philadelphia to number twenty
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  two and acquiring a second round pick along the way, which would be awfully
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  nice, and the Broncos taking bow knicks there at that spot. Now,
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  this was released this morning before the acquisition of Zach Wilson via trade with the
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  New York Jets. Leggy, first off, what did you think of Jordan
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  Reid's idea? And secondly, does the acquisition of Wilson then preclude the Broncos
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  from doing such a move? Well, I advocate any trade down if you're
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  going to take QB five on the board. I just you know, the
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  fifth quarterback taken in the top twelve picks of a draft has only happened one
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  time nineteen ninety nine. So to take QB five in the top twelve picks
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  of the draft nuts to me, and I think I would advocate what Jordan
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  is saying. If you're going to do it, if you just decided you
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  like that quarterback, and you have a late first or an early second round
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  grade, which at twenty two that could be an early second round grade for
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  a lot of teams, then the trade down is the exact move. But
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  Jordan works He works it man, he knows his stuff, and I think
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  he's matching skill sets and situations to the prospects when you're doing that kind of
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  exercise. So I think trade down, if you're going to do it,
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  would be the move. And I don't think the Zach Wilson thing influences much
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  of anything. Really. It was like a free it's a free acquisition.
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  Essentially, the Jets are going to pay some or most of the salary and
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  you essentially swapped picks. You didn't even fully give up draft pick to get
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  a quarterback. You may or may not be able to, you know,
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  to recalibrate. So I think that's as close to a waiver claim almost as
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  you can come in the trade world to get a player who a team took
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  with the second pick of the draft, so they obviously felt like he had
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  an immense talent. So I think it's worth the flyer they're taken. And
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  you know, now we will see Thursday if it means that. That means
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  they take one of the seven or eight quarterbacks a little later in the middle
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  rounds with a little insurance to work into it. But this does signify it.
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  They don't maybe like the prices of the trade up and all that other
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  stuff, doesn't it Legy, I mean, what does the Zach Wilson maybe
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  say about their feelings on the class, if anything? I think I think
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  just from being in that building a lot and talking to everyone a lot,
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  I think it says they don't think QB four or QB five is worth the
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  twelfth pick, and they'd like to stay at twelve and take a pretty damn
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  good player that they need. So I think that's what this is. You
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  know, we'll see Thursday if if it is indeed the case, But right
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  now I think they believe, like a lot of people, at least three
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  quarterbacks are getting overdrafted Thursday, and that means a bunch of players are a
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  handful of players that will not be that will be underdrafted are going to come
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  down the board in the first round, and if you can get the top
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  one or two pass rushers at twelve, or the top one or two corners,
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  or the top four or five receivers, why wouldn't you stay there and
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  and get a player who would be talented enough to be a long term starter
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  from the moment he walks in the building. So I think that this gives
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  them a little more insurance to play the chalk, as it were, and
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  just sit at twelve if you can't move, and you try and just take
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  well, who will be a really good player, because again, at least
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  two of the quarterbacks are getting overdrafted, so somebody else isn't all right?
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  Real quickly, one more on the Zach Wilson moved. Do you think this
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  gives him inside track to starter? I was asking Nate, they wanted to
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  get a couple games. Look at Stidham. I mean, you know,
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  Sean Payton's been a little bit different of his talking in the offseason about Stidham
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  than he did, you know, last offseason. Shall we say, what
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  do you think? What do you think the chances are without them drafting a
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  first round QB that Zach maybe is the inside track on starting Andy. I
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  think they got to a man and see how much work there is to be
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  done here to repair I mean, his game is, he's got a lot
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  of confidence issues. It shows up in his play, and there's a lot
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  of work to be done on his part to get back to the level,
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  at minimum of where he was when he came into the league. So I
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  think they got to get a look up close and see what they think before
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  we can say that. I think at minimum they see this as a competition
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  and they'll throw him in the pool too and see who who you know,
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  swims out to be the starter. Zach Wilson is in the pool. Jeff
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  Legwald is on the show right now here on the Craig and Lindall Show at
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  else Dude Sports Radio ninety two five. In addition to that, Leggy maybe
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  kind of a bit of a footnote on the day given new uniforms, Zach
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  Wilson all that. Levi Wallace was today by the Broncos, the unrestricted free
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  agent from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Where does he fit into the plans there in
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  the secondary? Well, I think he's you know, again, I will
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  tell you they're very, very very optimistic about Riley Moss. So I think
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  at minimum he's fighting it out and they have a like last year, they
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  wanted a veteran in the in the house just in case. I mean,
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  he's played a ton of games. He's a rare free agent for them this
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  year, and that's he's started the majority of his games in his career.
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  So I think this is a pretty good late free agency pickup of a guy
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  who you know, I believe he's going to turn twenty nine in June,
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  so he's still he's still in good prime playing years, so I think this
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  gives him a little insurance. And again because they don't have that too,
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  I think they're trying to cover their bases at some of the need spots.
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  You know, they've signed a couple rotational tackles just in case. You know,
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  they've signed a couple of defensive linemen just in case. So I think
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  they're trying to do the best they can to cover their bases at need positions
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  if they can't make anything happen at those positions on days one or two of
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  the draft, and with No. Two, it's hard to make things happen
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  on days one and two of the draft. All right. I'm curious you
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  had to go down and cover the press conference. I saw some of your
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  tweets from there. What's the feeling, what was your overall response, what
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  was your vibe about how fans feel about those new unis. Well, you
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  know, Andy, you know me, we've had this discussion. Part of
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  me thinks if you post something on social media that says I love puppies and
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  rainbows, you'll get crushed. You know, by a certain segment. Puppies
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  are overrated. Yeah see, but by their math, they think the majority
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  of the people are okay with it and like it. Andy, And I'll
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  tell you they they used an early round of surveys to fans and you know,
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  they say they got over ten thousand of them back, and the majority
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  of those surveys wanted the sort of to keep some combination of the current blue,
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  you know, or the blue that's been in the uniform since the last
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  change. So this notion there was this ground swell to the team to go
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  throwback totally. The team says, at least that's not true that they're ten
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  thousand surveys, that they did leaned more towards the uniform they've had. So
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  I think They've done the best they could to make as many combinations as possible.
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  I think with ten combinations, they feel like one of those ten will
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  make at least most fans happy at some point. Nothing with orange pants,
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  Leggy pants, burn the orngepants. Jeffle is very telling to me that you
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  know ten combinations, It's like, well, one of these will hit with
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  most people. So here we go. I'll have at it. Jeff Legweald.
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  The top one hundred is out right now at ESPN dot com. By
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  the way, Leggy, Marvin Harrison number one, Molik Neighbors number two,
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  Brock Bauers number three, Roma dunes A number four, Caleb Williams five,
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  Jadeen Daniels six. All every year from Jeff Lagwald is that's a fantasy football
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  world. Everybody's overrating these guys and nothing but skill position talent in the top
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  six for Jeff Legwell, come on, man, where's the centers, where's
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  the tackles, where's the d tackles? Leggy, get some meat and potatoes
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  football players in there. You know, typical name, you know you cut
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  you cut the story off seven. Tackle. You know you go to number
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  seven, You got to tackle seven? All the way down at seven.
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  Man, I remember the last tackle I had in the top three, probably
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  Joe Thomas. I can't remember. Now, I'd have to go back and
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  look, going to old school. Right there, turn your mic gun.
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  What about the dude the Chiefs took number one overall? Who was that guy?
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  Remember him? Right? Tackle Fisher? Eric Fisher? Yeah? There
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  you go? What about him? I had him up there? He would
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  I don't think he was one. It'd be hard for seven now these guys
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  are. This year is a weird board. Uh you know, I don't
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  have either quarterback ranked with the grade I had on C. J. Stroud,
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  But the board's not as strong. Well, great top Robinson at number
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  twelve, by the way, shop Robin, Who was that you brought up?
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  McConkie, Oh, Laddi McConkie. Is that Phil mcconkey's kid there,
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  Leggy? I don't think so. I lost in Lad mccakay, never mind
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  slot receiver out of Georgia, Andy Laddi. McConkie, I think I liked
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  you better when your mic was off. Yeah, you don't remember Phil mccakey
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  the Giants, of course I do. But you know I've covered the leak
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  forever. Who the hell is Phil mccaukye. Well, maybe you get out
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  of Pittsburgh. Every now and again you learn about a guy that beat the
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  Broncos in a Super Bowl with Mark Bavaro the tight end. What Hey,
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  what grades you have on Bivara? What grades you have on Phil Simms?
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  Uh, let me go get let me go get my binders from you.
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  Hey, dig up that real, real tape and show me some highlights.
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  What did you have on ed two tall chaps? Yeah, I'll now speak
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  to Andy. And what did you think of Carl Banks? What grade you
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  have on Banks? Are you the seven? Overall? You're just googling random
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  names? Never know. I just remember all these guys from beating the Broncos
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  in a Super Bowl the last time that damn d was the actual uh main
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  uniform. I told Leggy, all right, I told Nate they went from
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  chumps to champs and they switched the logo. So I'm sorry, Nate's gotta
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  watch crooked horse cars from now on. But I'm just telling you, the
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  knee signifies a lot of pain. It was all logo Mo Kamara, by
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  the way, at number one hundred, good good one on that one,
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  right, there, Leggy, Jeff Legwald, everybody, ESPN dot com Top
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  one hundred, go read it right now, Leggy, good stuff bought the
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  great on Raftman there, Leggy, all right, Jeff Legwald with us right
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  there, Google, don't you dare? Google? Man me there, leg
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  Wald and he uses bing. It's the Craikman at Lindahl Show.